Senior Engineering Team Lead

Location: Larkspur, CA

Job Description:

Akili is looking for a Senior Engineering Team Lead to join our team in Larkspur, CA. As Team Lead for Akili’s Healthcare Solutions you will be responsible for directing the activities of a team of developers building mobile and web apps used by patients and their care teams. This is a critical role that will partner with Product Management to understand business priorities and product requirements, and translate those into development plans and tasks while managing the day to day scrum activities. You will work closely with our videogame treatment team to make sure the schedules align, and with the FDA quality control team to integrate best practices. The ideal candidate will have experience working with developers in agile/scrum environments and creating project plans that support continuous deployment of features that bring value to the customer.

Specific duties include:

Direct developers working on our Healthcare Solutions products

Partner with Product Management to create project schedules that align with end to end feature deployment that aligns project development milestones with the business goals

Partner with Architects to understand technical infrastructure, dependencies and deliverables

Align with game/treatment development team to manage integration and dependencies

Schedules and directs the work of the development team working on Healthcare Solutions products, managing the Jira backlog, sprints and scrums.

Manage external technology and development partners overall relationship and ongoing work

Collaborate with SQA on software quality practices and plans

Tracks progress and drive for successful completion of commitments

Maintains regular communication with team partners and stakeholders.

Look for ways to improve efficiency without compromising effectiveness and quality

Anticipate and communicate problems and roadblocks to successful achievement of goals and milestones